Attribution
Atelier of the Boxes (Randall 1985)

Reverse
Recessed and divided into four compartments for the weights and scale.

Object Condition
The sliding lid of the box is missing.

Comments
Seems to be the only surviving religious piece attributed to the Atelier of the Boxes (Randall 1985). The interior, which is the bottom of the box is divided into compartments to hold a balance and weights.

Provenance
Collection of John Hunt, Dublin. Lewis V. Randall collection, Montreal. Bought by the Walters Art Museum from Ruth Blumka in New York in February 1977.

Bibliography
C. Gómez-Moreno, Medieval Art from Private Collections, exhibition catalogue, New York, The Cloisters, Metropolitan Museum, 1968-1969, no. 79.
R. H. Randall, Masterpieces of Ivory from the Walters Art Gallery (New York, 1985), no. 340.
R. H. Randall, 'A Group of Gothic Ivory Boxes', in Burlington Magazine, 127, no. 990 (September 1985), pp. 577-578, fig. 2-3.
J. Warren, Medieval and Renaissance Sculpture in the Ashmolean Museum, 3 vols (Oxford, 2014), Vol. 2: Sculptures in Stone, Clay, Ivory, Bone and Wood, pp. 589-90, in relation to no. 176 and p. 591, no.177.